Lately, I changed my role at Patchstack from Security Community Manager to mVDP Growth Manager. Apart from congratulations, I got a lot of questions "what is mVDP?". I think it's time to explain what it is and why you should be probably interested in it.

Patchstack’s bug bounty program rewards security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins. In October, we removed rules limiting reports to newer, popular plugins, leading to 1571 reports affecting 7M+ installs. Learn what we discovered!

WordPress has its pros and cons. Sadly, very often the cons are blown out of proportion. The security aspect is one of those, especially that is improved over the last few years.

You have a WordPress website and installed some plugins from the official plugin repository. You are using the official repository because it's official, so it's THE repository. You feel a bit safer, also it informs you about the new versions so everything seems OK. But what

In the ever-evolving field of software development, security remains important. With the increasing complexity and scale of software systems, the need for robust security measures has never been greater.

Git is amazing. I can't imagine doing my work without it. But, like any tool, it can be a source of security problems.